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Sociological Exploration of Gamers

Over the last couple of years, GameSpy.com has moved from a comprehensive PC gaming portal to an authority on just about every gaming platform. Hell, we're even supplying multiplayer technology for PS2 and Xbox. Now, at first, many of us argued that people who play games on the PC and people who play games on the console are basically the same. They both want engrossing, exciting games that suck them in and refuse to let go.

But, beneath the surface, there are very subtle differences between the two. My exhaustive research has come to the following conclusions:

PC gamers are excited when their golf games feature courses with terrainthat's an exact inch-for-inch replicaof a real-life course

Console Gamers are excited when their golfing games havedeformable terrain

PC gamers express frustration when a game does not accurately model the exact turning radius of a Messerschmitt Bf 109 at 10,000 feet

Console gamers express frustration at any airplane that does not have unlimited ammo and rockets

PC gamers, when ordering fast food, will calculate the price of the individual items in a combo meal in order to determine which will give them the best value

Console gamers collect all the Happy Meal prizes in the hopes of unlocking some sort of secret bonus menu

PC gamers try to squeeze some game time in between spending time with their demanding wives and children

Console gamers squeeze somegame time in between lightingone another's farts